Just Walkin' Down The Street

[Derrick]

Tom and I were chatting last night and we spent a few minutes playing a favorite game of our: we name actors/actresses we can imagine seeing in our neighborhood, just walkin' down the street like regular people and those we never in a million years in our wildest imagination see walkin' down the street. So I thought I'd ask you guys; which actors/actresses do you think you'd see walkin' down the street in your neighborhood and who do you think wouldn't be caught dead just perambulating like regular folks?

Here's my list of some folks I wouldn't be surprised to see on the street:

Rosario Dawson
Sam Rockwell
Rashida Jones
Hilary Swank
Robert Downey, Jr.
Vanessa Ferlito
Zoe Bell
Wesley Snipes (this one is kinda a cheat because I actually did see him in a video store)
Bruce Willis (Again a cheat )
Karl Urban
Charlize Theron
Richard Dreyfus
George Clooney
Minnie Driver
Helen Mirren


And those who I just can't imagine walking down my neighborhood street?

Nicole Kidman
Edward Norton
David Arquette
Courtney Cox
Jennifer Anniston
Pierce Brosnan
Tom Cruise
Judy Dench
Famke Janssen
Morgan Freeman
Mary-Louise Parker
Philip Seymour Hoffman

[Eddie Love]

The likelihood of my seeing any of these people walkin' down the street is now non-existent. When I was in NYC, I saw two each from both your lists. Rockwell and Swank from the first and Norton and Hoffman the later. Hilary and I were once waiting for an elevator at the same time in a sweltering hotel lobby one day. Coincidentally, I'd been crushing on her having recently seen INSOMNIA. I was on my own, she was chatting with friends. She suddenly reeled around, touched my forearm and said "This elevator is taking forever!" At which point I said -- in a high-pitched Jerry Lewis voice -- "Pretty laaaaaadyyy!!!!" (Not really -- I don't recall what I said.)

Of course, New Yorkers cultivate their studied indifference around the famous, and it's kind of rightly regarded as gauche to say anything to them. (Unless, as I once mentioned, you're drunk and you see Tony Curtis!) The one exception I have, is I regret not approaching John Hurt who was sitting on his own in front of a honeywagon on a film shoot, but right out on the sidewalk. I wanted to say how much his work has always meant to me and my family, but didn't.

[Derrick]

Oct 15, 2010 18:45:32 GMT -5 Eddie Love said:

The likelihood of my seeing any of these people walkin' down the street is now non-existent. When I was in NYC, I saw two each from both your lists. Rockwell and Swank from the first and Norton and Hoffman the later. Hilary and I were once waiting for an elevator at the same time in a sweltering hotel lobby one day. Coincidentally, I'd been crushing on her having recently seen INSOMNIA. I was on my own, she was chatting with friends. She suddenly reeled around, touched my forearm and said "This elevator is taking forever!" At which point I said -- in a high-pitched Jerry Lewis voice -- "Pretty laaaaaadyyy!!!!" (Not really -- I don't recall what I said.)

Of course, New Yorkers cultivate their studied indifference around the famous, and it's kind of rightly regarded as gauche to say anything to them. (Unless, as I once mentioned, you're drunk and you see Tony Curtis!) The one exception I have, is I regret not approaching John Hurt who was sitting on his own in front of a honeywagon on a film shoot, but right out on the sidewalk. I wanted to say how much his work has always meant to me and my family, but didn't.

Hilary Swank is a good example. She doesn't fit the conventional idea a Hollywood beauty. She looks like a regular person as opposed to say, Nicole Kidman or Halle Berry, both of who are so beautiful that they're like from another planet or something. I could never dream of approaching them and saying 'Hi!' but i feel i could do that with Hilary Swank.

And yeah, here in NY it is considered to be terribly gauche to even acknowledge the existence of a movie/TV actor but I don't care. And I've found from my personal experience that if you don't shriek and scream out their name, they're pretty cool with you just saying, "Hi, how you doin'?" Like I did to Mickey Rourke back around '93 when I saw him eating a hot dog on 2end Ave. He nodded, mouth full and flashed me the peace sign.